Terms of Use

Terms of Use

ATTENTION: READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. USING THIS WEBSITE AFFIRMS THAT YOU HAVE READ AND ACCEPT THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE. THESE TERMS GOVERN YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, ANY CONTENT(SUCH AS TEXT, DATA, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, GRAPHICS, OR PHOTOGRAPHS) THAT STERLING HIEGHTS OR ITS AFFILIATES MAY MAKE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE WEBSITE AND ANY SERVICES THAT MAY BE PROVIDED THROUGH THE WEBSITE.

Sterling Heights operates this website to provide online access to information about Sterling Heights, the services it provides, and the community for which it provides services. By accessing and using this website, you agree to each of the terms and conditions in the Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms, you cannot use this website. Additional terms and conditions applicable to specific areas of this website or to particular content or transactions may also be posted in particular areas of the website and, together with these Terms of Use, rule your use of those areas, content or transactions. These Terms of Use, together with applicable additional terms and conditions, are referred to as this “Agreement.”

Sterling Heights has the right, and reserves the right, to modify this Agreement at any time without giving you any prior notice. Your use of the website following any such modification constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Agreement as modified, and to only use this website and its content for legal, non-harmful purposes.

1) Use of Site

You may use the content on the website, consisting of the services, the website, and the information, writings, images and/or other works that you see, hear or otherwise experience on the website solely for your non-commercial, personal purposes and/or to learn about Sterling Heights and its services, and the community. No right , title or interest in any of the content is transferred to you, whether as a result of viewing, copying or downloading any content or otherwise. Sterling Heights reserves complete title and full intellectual property rights (including any trademark or copyrights) in all content it legally has a right to. Except as expressly authorized by this Agreement, you may not use, alter, copy, distribute, transmit, or derive another work from any of the content obtained from the website or the services, except as expressly permitted by the Terms of Use. You agree by your use that you will not evade, disable or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the website or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any materials and/or third-party content or enforce limitations on use of the website or any such content.

You acknowledge that Sterling Heights may use or disclose any information attributable to your use of this website or the contents of any information related thereto as allowed by this Agreement, including but not limited to by law, or as required by a ny legal or governmental authority.

2) User Acknowledgement of Potential Harm

Although Sterling Heights will use its discretion and reasonable efforts to keep this website operational and available, Sterling Heights makes no representation with regard to, and does not guarantee, the error-free or uninterrupted use of this website or any part thereof. Sterling Heights also cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that any aspect you access, link or download from this website can be free of viruses, contamination, or other potentially destructive features to you or your software, server or computer system.

3) WAIVER/NO WARRANTY

Any ratings, recommendations, blogs, postings or the like on the website or which refer to this website that are not expressly by Sterling Heights are opinions and could be changed by a third party. Sterling Heights shall not liable for any of the foregoing third-party content or information, even if you choose to live at the property based on any of the foregoing. Third parties may have access to view any comments, ratings and reviews that you post on this website, and Sterling Heights shall not be responsible or liable for any claims, actions, loss, damage or liability that may arise therefrom. All third-party information or content is at your own risk , and Sterling Heights shall not be responsible or liable for the information contained in this website that is made by third parties, including whether or not such information is false. STERLING Heights MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICE OR THE CONTENT. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN STATEMENT BY S TERLING DISTRICT SHALL MODIFY THIS WAIVER UNLESS STATED EXPRESSLY IN THIS PARAGRAPH. STERLING Heights EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT , WITH REGARD TO THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICE, THE CONTENT, AND ANY SERVICE FURNISHED OR TO BE FURNISHED VIA THE WEBSITE. STERLING Heights DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS PERFORMED BY THE SITE OR THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE WILL BE CORRECTED. STERLING Heights DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENT, OR THAT ANY ERRORS IN THE CONTENT WILL BE CORRECTED. THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICE AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS AT STERLING Heights’S DISCRETION. USE THIS WEBSITE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND AT YOUR OWN RISK.

4) RELEASE OF LIABILITY/Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release Sterling Heights and its agents, affiliates, parent companies, subsidiaries, successors and assigns, and anyone acting by, through, under, or in concert with them, or any of them, of and from any and all manner of actions, cause or causes of action, in law or in equity, including strict liability, and all suits, contracts, agreements, promises, liability, claims, demands, damages, loss, cost, or expense, of any nature whatsoever, known or unknown, fixed or contingent, that you now have or may hereafter have against them resulting or arising from or in any way related to your use of this website, th is also excludes any claims that may sound in product liability, lost revenue, profit, time off from work. IN NO EVENT WILL STERLING Heights BE LIABLE FOR A NY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF: (I) THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICE, OR THE CONTENT; (II) ANY TRANSACTION CONDUCT ED THROUGH OR FACILITATED BY THE WEBSITE; (III) ANY CLAIM ATTRIBUTABLE TO BUGS, VIRUSES, ERRORS, OMISSIONS; OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICE AND/OR THE CONTENT; (IV) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA, IF ANY; OR (V) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICE, OR THE CONTENT, EVEN IF STERLING Heights HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICE, THE CONTENT, OR WITH THE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE WEBSITE.

BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, STERLING Heights’S LIABILITY IS LIMITED AND WARRANTIES ARE EXCLUDED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BUT SHALL, IN NO EVENT, EXCEED $50.00.

5) Defense and Indemnity of Sterling Heights

You understand and agree that you are personally responsible for your behavior on the website. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Sterling Heights, its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, joint venturers, business partners, licensors, employees, agents, and any third-party information providers to the service from and against all claims, losses, liabilities, expenses, damages and costs (including, but not limited to, direct, incidental, consequential, exemplary and indirect damages), and reasonable attorneys’ fees and expert costs, resulting from or arising out of your use, misuse, or inability to use the website, the service, or the content, or any violation by you of this Agreement.

6) Privacy Policy

Sterling Heights views the protection of student information to be important. As part of your use of the website, you may provide Sterling Heights with personal information such as your name, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address that will permit us to identify you. All other personal information we collect from you will be used only for purposes appropriate for conducting our business, including using it on other third party sites, providing the comments, ratings and reviews you submit to third parties, follow up on services provided, sending announcements, creation of a database, audits, reporting requirements, and for other actions related to our business, marketing, research, product development, or improving the quality of our services and our affiliates and/or vendors products/services. Although Sterling Heights may collect and assemble data about transactions, Sterling Heights will not sell, give or otherwise make available to unaffiliated third parties any personally-identifiable information about you except as a part of any sale of assets, joint venture, merger or partnership or as allowed or required by law or government order.

7) Personal Information of Children Under 13.

Sterling Heights complies with the requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC’s Rule interpreting COPPA (16 CFR § 512). This website is not directed to children (people under 18) and we do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age through this website. If you are under 18, do not provide us with any information, we do not want it, or ask a parent or legal guardian to provide Sterling Heights with any information in their own name for you. Accordingly, all information submitted on this website will be treated as if submitted by an adult.

7) Links to Other Sites/ Links to This Site

Links on the website to third-party websites are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the Sterling Heights website. Sterling Heights is not obligated to review such third-party website s, does not control such third-party websites, and is not responsible for any such third-party websites (or the products, services, or content available through the same). Sterling Heights, while providing a courtesy link, does not endorse or make any representations (including whether they be appropriate in content or graphics, or whether they are obscene, pornographic, profane, defamatory or otherwise) about such third-party websites, any information, products, services, or materials found there or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to from the Sterling Heights website, you do this entirely at your own risk.

You are granted a limited, non exclusive right to create a “hypertext ” link to this website provided that such link is to the entry or home page of this website and does not portray Sterling Heights or any of its affiliates and their services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise defamatory light. This limited right may be revoked by Sterling Heights at any time for any reason whatsoever. You may not use any meta-tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing Sterling Heights or any affiliate name, trademark, or product name without Sterling Heights’s express written consent for each request.

8) Applicable Laws; Governing Law; Dispute Resolution

User access to this website is governed by all applicable federal, state and local laws. All communications shall be governed by the English language version of the Agreement. These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts or choice of law. Any dispute between you and Sterling Heights regarding the content or use of this website shall be resolved by arbitration under the Commercial Rules of the American Arbitration Association, with hearings held in the English language in Houston, Texas and shall not be joined with any dispute that any other person or entity may have with Sterling Heights. No waiver by Sterling Heights of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default of this Agreement. If any part of this Agreement is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, it will not impact any other provision of this Agreement, all of which will remain in full force and effect.

Do Not Track requests are NOT handled any differently from all other requests.